he’s on par with the likes of sam ehlinger, james brown, and major applewhite, but with none of the moxie, or ability to make plays outside of script. he was one of the poorer starters on two of the best teams we’ve ever had, and he failed to improve as his career went on. he had every advantage that any qb could ask for, from coaching, to supporting cast, to schedule, and he underachieved despite all of that.
it’s really this simple: the people who think that QE was some legend, or that he “led” Texas to the playoffs, or that the people who criticize him are crazy, simply credit QE with “bringing Texas back” because he’s the QB and we won a bunch of games the past two years. some of you can’t separate our w/l record from QE’s personal performance. we won a lot, therefore QE must be great, and must be responsible for all of those wins. except that we won in spite of him, not because of him.
this was where PFF ranked quinn ewers after week 12 (i would have posted the final numbers, but this was the the most recent ratings i could find):
through 12 weeks of football, quinn ewers was rated as the 13th best qb in the sec, and the 200th best qb in america according to PFF. this is who he is. yes, we won a ton of games the last two seasons. we also had more nfl talent than anyone in CFB, we have one of the ~3 best coaching staffs in football, and last season we had the best defense in cfb, with stars at all three levels. easy schedule, loaded team, all star coaching staff- mediocre, undependable qb.
at this point, anyone who still can’t see that quinn ewers was an obvious weak link for these last two teams is probably self deluded beyond repair. i don’t know how many more experts have to tell you that he wasn’t good, how much more analytical data you need to see, or how many hundreds of players have to be drafted ahead of him before you people wake up from your burnt orange kool-aid stupor and realize that quinn ewers was absolutely nothing special at Texas, and that nobody outside of this echo chamber sees him the way you do.